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National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) Report, data summary for 2006 through 2007, issued November 2008

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Methods

The NHSN has both Patient Safety and Healthcare Personnel Safety surveillance components. Within the Patient Safety Component, data are collected using standardized methods and definitions3, 4 and are grouped into specific module protocols5 as follows:

  • Device-associated: see section below;

  • Procedure-associated: see section below; and

  • Medication-associated: for certain locations, facilities choose to report susceptibility data for selected organisms and/or antimicrobial use data for selected agents.

Results

There were 923 hospitals enrolled in the NHSN at the end of 2007, of which 646 had filed monthly reporting plans signaling their intent to follow one or more of the Patient Safety Component modules for at least 1 month. From this group, a total of 621 hospitals had reported at least denominator data in 2006 and/or 2007. Characteristics of these 621 NHSN hospitals from 45 states and the District of Columbia that contributed data for this report are shown in Table 1, Table 2. For the

Discussion

The composition of hospitals reporting to NHSN has changed since the first report published over a year ago. As reflected in the hospital characteristics shown in Table 1, Table 2, there has been a disproportionately large influx of smaller hospitals. This change is likely due to 2 reasons: (1) New York, South Carolina, and Vermont had mandatory HAI reporting laws that required data to be reported through the NHSN to their respective responsible state agencies, and (2) enrollment in the NHSN

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